Knee riding horse



May 26, 1959 w. A. RUHMANN ETAL KNEE RIDING HORSE Filed Nov. 8; 1956 WE'L 70A/ '4. RUHMA/V/V JOHN McCl/LLOUGH INVENTQRS BY i United Etates Patent KNEE RIDING HORSE Welton A. Ruhmann and John P. McCullough,

Fort Worth, Tex.

Application November 8, 1956, Serial No. 621,053

1 Claim. (Cl. 272-1) This invention relates to toys and has reference to a device on which children play at riding.

Adults have amused children, particularly small children, for time immemorial by bouncing them on their knees and referred to the jest as riding a horse. An object of the invention is to provide a saddle-like construction to fit on an adults knee, and which construction includes an animal head at the place of a saddle pommel for lending realism to the toy and for stimulating the childs interest.

Another object of the invention is to provide a construction for the described purpose which will not injure the child.

A further object is to provide a toy of the referred to character which conforms with the contour of an adults bent knee.

These and other objects will become apparent from the following description and the accompanying drawing,

wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a toy in accordance with the invention and shown strapped on an adults knee.

Figure 2 is a rear view of the toy shown in Figure 1, and

Figure 3 is a broken perspective view of a preferred construction for connecting the girth of the toy to a side of the saddle seat.

The present invention is comprised of a saddle seat 10, a girth 11, a pommel 12 in the form of an animals head, and a skirt portion 13 forwardly of the saddle seat and canted with respect thereto so as to fit the contour of the adults bent knee to locate the toy thereon.

The saddle seat 10 and skirt 13 are made of a single rectangular piece of normally flat flexible material, such as simulated leather, and which material is angularly folded on each side thereof to provide the depending forward skirt, referred to. The sides of the fold 14 are stitched, as at 15, and whereby the seat and skirt are securely formed relative to each other to fit the adults bent knee.

A circular opening 16 is provided at the juncture of the saddle seat 10 and skirt 13 for receiving the base of the head 12. The latter is in the nature of a stuffed toy and is comprised of identical sides 17, stitched together as at 18, and the upper and rear seams 18 include a fringe 19 therebetween to represent a horses mane. Folded pieces of material form ears 20, and which ears are stitched to the sides 17 as shown at 21. The base of the head 12 is received in the opening 16 where said base is notched (not shown) and stitched, as at 22, to the saddle seat 10 and skirt 13 and covered with a circular closure 23 of flexible material.

In order to lend realism to the saddle seat 10 and for holding the child in place on the seat, a cantle 24 is sewed across the rear portion of said seat 10. The cantle 24 is of a single layer of material folded on itself and stuffed with a suitable filler, and the edges of the material of the cantle are sewed to the outer rear surface of the saddle seat 10 and transversely thereof.

The girth 11 is a length of elastic sewed at one end to the inner side surface of the saddle seat 10 as indicated by means of dotted lines 25 in Figure 1, whereas the remaining length of the girth terminates in a relatively flat book 26 of wire construction and which book is secured to the end of the girth by means of a loop 27 sewed thereon. The hook 26 engages a wire eye 28 in a loop 29 sewed to the inner surface and side of the seat 10 opposite the sewed end 25 previously referred to.

Additional realism is provided by means of attaching a rein 30 to the head 12, and which rein is positioned around the head in the usual manner. A sleigh bell 31 may be attached to the rein 30 for further stimulating A the child's interest in the riding action.

The invention is not limited to the exemplary construction herein shown and described, but may be made in various ways within the scope of the accompanying claim.

What is claimed is:

A knee riding horse comprising a rectangular piece of normally flat flexible material, folds on opposite sides of said material, stitches through said folds securing the same in folded position, said material including a circular opening between said folds, a stufied head of flexible material, the base of said head being secured in said circular opening, and a circular closure secured over the base of said head.

Maussner Aug. 6, 1907 Whitney Oct. 24, 1950 

